Commentary Thread

[hassan]

i am happy with my total

End of Over 50: 384-5, runrate=7.68

Saleemuddin c. Steele b. Morrell 59 (FOW: 114/1)
Majeed c. Westall b. Steele 84 (FOW: 177/2)
Kadir b. Poke 109 (FOW: 340/3)
Bennett c. Attwood b. Westall 88 (FOW: 362/4)
Zaidi c. Attwood b. Westall 29 (FOW: 379/5)

 

[embi]

omg, i can't believe it! royal duck (first ball of innings) for Rowland, what a shame!

0.1 W Stevens to Rowland
A fantastic catch, landed on his head and miraculously dropped into the palm of his hand

And another!

2.6 W Stevens to Cooper
Should be an easy single, but Rafiullah has showed a great arm in throwing down the stumps.

12/2, I have a feeling this will be a short innings

 

[hassan]

Good first over by Hastings

0.6 W Hastings to Gray
Pull shot straight into the hands of Wajahat at square leg.
0.5 . Hastings to Gray
Full outside off stump, firmly driven straight to cover.
0.4 . Hastings to Gray
That was a brute of a ball which rose from a good length and caught Gray on the gloves. The ball dropped down safely but Gray is in some pain.
0.3 . Hastings to Gray
Played around the pads, fine leg quick on the ball.
0.2 W Hastings to Shah
Edged! And taken by a tumbling Gilbert!
0.1 . Hastings to Shah
Fullish ball angling away outside off stump, leans well forward, shoulders arms through to Gilbert.

 

[embi]

Not bad first over, wish i'd bowled like that. Another wicket for the falcons, i'm rapidly going downhill. Its my best batsman as well

3.5 W Henshaw to Bishop
The umpire raises his finger for LBW. Bishop is staring at the edge of his bat, he's obviously not pleased at that decision!

and oh my god 4 wickets in 4 overs

4.2 W Stevens to Perry
He didn't get anything on that one, and is struck cleanly on the pad. The umpire has no hesitation in giving him out LBW.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

37.4 W Greenwood to Lyons
He's gone! Brilliantly bowled slower delivery completely deceived the batsman and he lobbed back a tame return catch to Greenwood.

He actually lost a wicket to 5 abysmal bowlers!!!

 

[embi]

37 overs, it was bound to happen. Even I got a couple against The Falcons...

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Another falls:

40.2 W Lonergan to Mills
Deadeye Leonard has picked that up, turned and thrown that at one stump from the backward point position. You can see why he fields in that position. Mills was well short of his ground

Just wait till he comes online, I'm gonna kill him!!!!:

Three down:

43.2 W Dunn to Cuffy
Crouch made a spectacular dive there, not sure if it was necessary but it was effective.

End of Over 3: 7-1, runrate=2.33, reqrunrate=7.43 (355-3)
Simpson 2-0-6-0
Drayton* 2 (5 balls)
Atkinson 3 (11 balls)

Last Wicket: Tuckett b. Binns 1 (FOW: 1/1)

I just need these two and the next two to get out within 10 overs, and this target seems chaseable



I'm gonna kill him!!!! :

10.4 W Simpson to Drayton
He's hit it high, really high. Was surely going for six until Lyons just managed to claw it to his grasp. Drayton will be disappointed with that one.

3 more to get out, and then its carnage

Yay!! Leo's out 1 more

13.6 W Hawley to Leonard
Driven to Bucknor at short cover, brilliant catch low to his left. Excellent field placement there.

 

[Briggsey]

37.5 1 Giles to Forbes
Short ball, Forbes cuts nicely. Walton at point gets a hand to it and the batsmen will run one.
And that's a century for Forbes! Well played indeed Sir!

Finally Forbes first century of the season!!! Looks like he's guiding us to victory together with Hildred!

End of Over 39: 246-2, runrate=6.31, reqrunrate=4.55 (295-5)
Conn 10-0-63-1
Forbes* 108 (92 balls)
Hildred 81 (88 balls)

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Bowling first with Atheron-ham, Nguyen-lee, Deane and Dawson, four non regualars in the squad. Doing OK. My batting is stronger for this match anyways.

End of Over 45: 219-3, runrate=4.87
Atherton-ham 8-0-47-2
Mattheus* 2 (2 balls)
Harbin 34 (38 balls)

Last Wicket: Clegg lbw b. Atherton-ham 106 (FOW: 216/3)

And yet another batsman decides to score his highest ever against me. To top it off, it was his first century...

 

[embi]

YES! 5th successive league game out of 5 as manager for me, very happy. My allrounder bowling captain returned to form (reminding me of another allrounder captain who has been doing well...)

 

[embi]

Being hit everywhere. Not such a decent performance from my captain.

End of Over 14: 104-0, runrate=7.43
Marples 2-0-24-0
Saleemuddin* 48 (39 balls)
Majeed 50 (47 balls)

 

[FreddieFan]

Some more good commentary:

1.5 2 Fieldwick to Ingleby
Bowler uses his head to stop a sure boundary, great save, but they'll have to check him for concussion after the match.

4.1 . Otto to Chanderpaul
You could give Chanderpaul three bats and he would still have missed that one! Great bowling by Otto!

6.5 . Otto to Karthikeyan
Pitched up outside off stump, and left alone by Karthikeyan. The action is about as exciting as watching grass grow...

9.1 . Fieldwick to Clarke
He's in a different time zone there, completely missed it!

9.6 . Fieldwick to Karthikeyan
Short ball, dropped down on the leg side. Karthikeyan wants a quick single, but his partner sends him back, Karthikeyan turning like the Titanic, but thankfully he has his bat down before Zafarullah whips off the bails.

:rtfl

 

[gary0808]

great recovery by my team. I was 1-3 and Linde and Pook are steadily moving forward at 90-3

 

[FreddieFan]

End of Over 30: 103-4, runrate=3.43
Wrigley 5-2-4-1
Turnball* 12 (36 balls)
Blatherwick 0 (3 balls)

Thats my opposition, going nice and slow...

EDIT - Couple of quick wickets, looking good for me...

End of Over 33: 113-6, runrate=3.42
Bowditch 10-0-36-2
Francis* 4 (7 balls)
Malik 0 (1 balls)

 

[gary0808]

DAMN! I've lost Pook for 47 and next in Ganga got a golden duck nin the last innings. 109-4 from 34 overs